Patent 7031304 was granted and assigned to Redback Networks on April, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus for selectively packet mirroring is described. A method in a network element comprises selectively mirroring packets, the packets being associated with a first virtual path, the first virtual path indicating a first physical path and a first virtual path identifier and the selectively mirrored packets forwarded in accordance with a second virtual path, said second virtual path indicating a second physical path and a second virtual path identifier.